.pps file is a PowerPoint slideshow file. This file type is used by PowerPoint 2003 and earlier. The new PowerPoint 2007/2010 use.ppsx and.ppsm file types. To break password protected PowerPoint slideshow file (.pps file) you can use PowerPoint Password program. PowerPoint Password recovers all PowerPoint password types and supports all PowerPoint versions (including PowerPoint 2007/2010).

PowerPoint is a powerful software program from Microsoft that is being used heavily in the offices to create presentations that can be displayed in the meetings and conferences. When we learned this software in childhood, we didn't know how important and how hugely popular this particular software is. If you are into office related work, you must have gotten many PowerPoint presentations explaining about some products or strategy.

If you have no password to unlock password protected PowerPoint presentation, I think the easiest and most effective way is to use powerpoint password recovery software, such as PowerPoint Password Genius or Office Password Genius Professional for PowerPoint presentation. Option 1: Unlock Password Protected PowerPoint Presentation with Password. When you create a password for your ppt or pptx file, you’d better to back up the password in a safe place. This is the best way to prevent a forgotten password for your protected PowerPoint presentation. Please select the Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint document you want to unprotect. The file size must not exceed 20 MB. Files are transferred through a secure connection and will be automatically deleted from the server in 24 hours. For questions, please see the FAQs.

Part 1: How to Make PPT (PowerPoint File) Editable

You must have noticed that many times you get 'read only' presentations which restrict you to edit it. At times, you get a presentation from someone, but you want to make changes, and you come to know that is a read only file, then what you can do? It is very simple! Yes, making a PPT file editable is just of seconds work. To make the file read only, creator uses the Mark as Final option.

A PPT file that is marked as final will have a top notification like this:

First, let me tell you how to make a PPT (PowerPoint File) Mark Final? Go to File => Info, and then look for permission, and then do as shown in screenshot below.

As long as you click on Mark as Final, the PPT will turn into a read only file which states that the presentation is final, and no need of editing. Moreover, if you want to edit the Presentation, then you just need to open the file and look at the top bar, you will see there 'Edit Anyway.'

Click on Edit Anway, and you are done. The presentation is now editable. Isn't it a simple task?

But what to do if you're locked out of PowerPoint?

But what to do when the presentation is locked (you can see in the third screenshot that there is a password option too) with a password and you don't have the password to unlock it?

How To Remove Powerpoint Password Protection

Part 2: How to Unlock PowerPoint Password If I Forgot It

Earlier you read about Mark as Final which is not an actual security enforcement rather that is done to show the viewer that the presentation is complete and ready to be displayed, and no changes needed. But, this password protection is real security enforcement that is not easy to bypass.

I have seen many tech guys shared a lot of ways to hack into it, but for me, nothing worked well. This is the reason we created a software program, iSeePassword Office Password Recovery which is more than efficient to crack the password of any locked PowerPoint presentation. In fact, it can crack any Microsoft Office files be it a Word file, Excel file, or PowerPoint File. The best thing is when you put this software at work, you just have to do some clicks, and this tool will take the command and try to crack the password with all of its strength. If you're locked out of MS word, Excel, you can still have chance to unlock MS Word and Excel.

Basically, it is loaded with three types of intelligent and powerful attacks:

Dictionary Attack => It performs the attack by making a combination of words and alphabet letters for a password, and tries to log in. It keeps the process going until it tried all the combinations.

Note: The passwords that are having some special characters can't be cracked by this mode.

Brute Force Attack => This attack mode tries every letter, character, and their combination, and tries to login. This is quite effective since a password usually has the numbers, characters, and letters.

Brute-Force with Mask Attack => It is just the advanced version of Brute Force attack in which the tool makes use of every information that you can remember of. I mean if you remember some hint or a word or a character, or length of the password, you can specify, and it can try to make combinations and tries to unlock.

Note: This works well when you forgot your password so that you can remind of something that you remember, but when you have to unlock a presentation that you got from someone else, you may not need this mode.

1Install Program and Select Your locked PPT Document

Assumed that you've downloaded and installed the program on your computer, then launch it. The main windows will appear like below, click the Open button to import your locked PPT files to the program.

2Choosing the Right Password Recovery Mode

The program offers four attack types for your choice and we've already introduced the differences of each attack type. Once you have selected the option that you want then simply click on the start button and the process will be initiated.

I highly recommend selecting Mask attack option, which can greatly increase the recovery rate of your PPT password, you’re allowed to provide your password hint, like password length, password range, affix.

3 Being to Unlock Your Password Protected PowerPoint File

After you confirm the attack type and settings, click the start button to let the program work. The program will take some time based on the password complexity.

As you can see, Unlocking the PPT password is not difficult, but it’s hard to provide more password hints, you know that the longer the password, the longer it may take, but If you don't have a better way then try Dr.PPT, maybe you are lucky and find the PPT password soon.

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Summary

For password-protected PowerPoint file, when you forgot PowerPoint password, locked out of encrypted PowerPoint file, only original password can remove password protection and PowerPoint password breaker has the chance to unlock read-only PowerPoint file, EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock works in clicks for two encryption types on PowerPoint.

As for others office tools, PowerPoint is one important and widely used tool, and workers have the habit to password protect PowerPoint file, and two encryption types on PowerPoint also: password protect PowerPoint from being opened and password protect PowerPoint from being modified, you can set up two different password for PowerPoint file, and when you open PowerPoint file, enter the password to open it and the password for modifying.
In the case that you forgot PowerPoint password, encrypted PowerPoint file is unavailable and unreachable, it's useless for you if you can't recover PowerPoint password. For some important PowerPoint files, it's better to use PowerPoint password remover to take password off PowerPoint file, and use the locked PowerPoint file with recovered PowerPoint file with the help of EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock.

Part 1: How to Password Protect PowerPoint File

But in the first of the article, you should know how to password protect PowerPoint file by using the inner feature on PowerPoint presentation tool.
In fact, it's the same skill to password protect office tool, and it's easy to use the internal encryption feature on PowerPoint presentation. Go to Menu>File>Encryption>Security, there are two encryption types: encryption for opening and the encryption for modifying.
You can set up only one encryption type for your PowerPoint file, but you should remember the PowerPoint encryption password, or you should use PowerPoint read-only password remover to remove password from PowerPoint file.

Part 2: How to Remove Password from PowerPoint

When you open one encrypted PowerPoint file, you're asked to enter original password to remove encryption from PowerPoint. For those who can't remember PowerPoint locked password, turn to EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock to recover PowerPoint encryption password with several recovery ways.
Step 1: Download and install EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock on the computer, and click on the feature Recover Password.
Step 2: Import the locked PowerPoint file from computer folder, save locked PowerPoint file in the folder so that you can get the encrypted PowerPoint file easily.
Step 3:

Crack Password Protected Powerpoint

Choose the PowerPoint password recovery method from the right side, from four PowerPoint password recovery type, select one according to the memory of PowerPoint password in mind:
Combination Attack
It works in the situation when you know all password character, but you forgot exact PowerPoint file password character order. It's the best recovery type for you. Just provide all characters of PowerPoint password. The PowerPoint password recovery will combine the characters you provided, it's the quickest method.
Dictionary Attack
No need of providing PowerPoint password character, the remover will use the inbuilt dictionary text to find back the encryption password of PowerPoint.
Mask Attack
When you remember part of characters of PowerPoint encryption password, maybe only one or two characters of your PowerPoint password, turn to mask attack, the PowerPoint password recovery will search out PowerPoint password considering the information you provided. It's better than the last recovery type.
Brute-Force Attack
Knowing nothing about the PowerPoint password, use brute-force attack type, the only shortage of this recovery type is a long time of the recovery process, you should wait a little long time to get back forgotten PowerPoint password.
Once selected the PowerPoint password recovery type, the remover will guide you step by step. At last, you can recover PowerPoint encryption password, just enter the recovered PowerPoint password to open locked PowerPoint file.

Part 3: How to Edit Protected PowerPoint File Without Password

Another encryption type of PowerPoint file is the modification encryption type, you can't edit/save/print protected PowerPoint file without password unless that you have removed the restriction from PowerPoint. EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock allows to unlock read-only PowerPoint file without password in three clicks.

Step 1: From the home page of EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock, click on Remove Restriction.
Step 2: Import read-only PowerPoint file from the computer by click on Select A File button.
Step 3: Once the read-only PowerPoint file was loaded into the PowerPoint password cracker, click on the Remove button to remove PowerPoint restriction.
Wait and after a few moments, you can edit protected PowerPoint file, copy text from password-protected PowerPoint is workable now.
So when you forgot PowerPoint password, turn to EelPhone PowerPoint Unlock, which can not only recover PowerPoint password to open a password protected PowerPoint and also can remove restriction on PowerPoint file make it possible to edit read-only PowerPoint file online.
Alex Scott

This article was updated on 13 July, 2020

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